Welcome to the website for Fair Labor, the first biography of Bessie Margolin, a pioneering woman lawyer and Supreme Court advocate.
2013 marked the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Equal Pay Act, laws Margolin shepherded through the courts to protect American workers while she proved equality for women. Margolin's journey from New Orleans' Jewish Orphans' Home through the New Deal to the Supreme Court provides insight to 20th century American themes of immigration and assimilation, the growth of government, and the pursuit of gender equality in the workplace.